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Karl Taylor on how Visual Education is transforming online learning for creatives

Creative Boom

Karl Taylor We chat with the founder of Visual Education, which offers world-class training in photography, CGI, and design, to discover why this disruptive platform has been turning so many heads. In today's rapidly evolving creative landscape, the lines between different visual arts disciplines are increasingly blurred.

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Why today's visual artists need to be multi-disciplined masters

Creative Boom

All images courtesy of Visual Education Adding a few strings to your bow helps you stand out and truly achieve your creative potential. We explain how world-class platform Visual Education can help you do just that. The world of visual arts is no longer confined to distinct categories.

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From fine art to Photoshop: Sam Gilbey's illustrious career so far

Creative Boom

If you're a person who knows and follows the world of visual arts, I'd only have to say "painterly pop culture portraits", and your mind would go straight to Sam Gilbey 's work. Gilbey doesn't remember a time when he wasn't drawing as a kid, but before he got to illustration, his education focused more on Fine Art.

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Holly Stapleton mixes gouache with digital art to create works bathed in golden hour light

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Completely self-taught, Holly didn't undertake any formal training or higher education in illustrator or visual arts. My work explores the complex nature of selfhood, vulnerability and loneliness.". Instead, she studied multimedia and communication studies for her undergraduate degree.

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What is art? What makes it good? And other things Signal festival makes you think about

Creative Boom

But if science is an art form, or indeed art is science, why did the former government decimate the arts curriculum and relentlessly champion STEM subjects? One of the best things about Signal is that it doesn't make these sorts of arbitrary distinctions between art and science – it actively unites them.

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Soumyaraj Vishwakarma's calming illustrations remind us to enjoy a slower pace of life

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She also thanks her art teacher, who helped her lean more towards a creative subject in her further education. "My My parents and teachers constantly encouraged me to participate in art competitions. Through those, I realised that I could pursue art as a profession. That's when I decided to go to an art college.".

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Zhiyu You depicts the struggles facing women in a diabolical series of Hell Scene paintings

Creative Boom

." © Zhiyu You © Zhiyu You After studying at China's Central Academy of Fine Arts for a year, Zhiyu found that the exam-oriented education was not to her liking. To change things up, she moved to the United States to study illustration at the School of Visual Arts, which further broadened her cultural and artistic horizons.

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